Sentences with phrase «usher students»

Scott Beigel, geography teacher, was killed as he tried to usher students back into his classroom when the shooting broke out.

Then principal Ty Thompson, his face a study in heartbreak, reopened his school and helped usher his students back into their classrooms.

Beigel, a geography teacher, was killed as he tried to usher students back into his classroom when the shooting broke out.

Scott Beigel, a geography teacher and cross-country coach at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, died a hero when he ushered students to safety inside his classroom after former student Nikolas Cruz killed 17 with an AR - 15 semiautomatic rifle.

Scott Beigel, a geography teacher and cross-country coach at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, died a hero when he ushered students to safety inside his classroom after former student Nikolas Cruz killed 17 with an AR - 15 semiautomatic rifle.

Years ago, a dear friend and Latin teacher was walking past my classroom as I was ushering my students in before the bell.

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As a student, he was active in the Civil Rights movement and served as an usher at the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr..

Mr Hogg told Time that he had attempted to flee the shooting, but was ushered into a classroom with several other students to hide out.

The protesters refused to give their names to reporters as they were being ushered away, but RCMP officers later said the group had identified themselves as political - science students from Carleton University.

Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, shortly after the massive changes ushered in by the modernizing Vatican II conference in Rome, the story quickly sets up a conflict between the old - school nun who serves as principal and runs the school like a prison (played by Meryl Streep) and the young, new priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who wants to shake things up by treating the students as fully rounded young people who deserve doses of freedom and respect as well.

As the movie abruptly ended, the same man who ushered us in came out and made his emotionally charged, carefully rehearsed script, inviting students to pray and ask Jesus into their hearts.

Young students described being ushered into bathrooms and closets by teachers as the first shots rang out.

Addressing some TESCON members at a ceremony to usher in fresh students of Kumasi Technical University into the network over the weekend, he urged other government appointees to do same.

Since mayoral control of the schools was authorized in 2002, ushering in an era of reform, graduation rates have spiked 40 percent overall, with a higher rate of growth for black and Hispanic students.

The governor, in a reversal of his previous policies, endorsed those recommendations, and the Board of Regents voted to adopt them, ending years of failed policy and ushering in a new day for teachers, our students and our schools.

A handful of mathematics students were ushered into separate rooms and given some problems to solve.

Graduate students Junyi Wu and Curtis Wang and professor Milton Feng found that light stimulates switching speed in the transistor laser, a device they hope will usher in the next generation of high - speed data transmission.

That night we drove to the ice camp and a graduate student named Alexey Kochanov ushered me into his cabin.

His students, led by star b - baller Lester (Usher Raymond) and senior class president Stephanie (Rosario Dawson), confront the principal (Glynn Turman) in protest, indirectly leading to a physical struggle between artist Ziggy (Robert Ri «chard) and the on - campus cop, Dante Jackson (Forest Whitaker).

Blended instruction gives students investigation, real - world application, and immediate relevance with each lesson — and even more so because of the educational technology advances that the Common Core will usher in.

A student's belief in his or her capability to succeed has been shown to predict academic achievement across grades and subjects as well as college majors and careers (Usher & Pajares, 2008).

Students also gain confidence in their capability to achieve a goal by watching others succeed at the goal, both in real life and through the media, particularly when the role models are adults who are self - similar or otherwise attractive to students (Bandura, 2004, cited in Usher & PajaresStudents also gain confidence in their capability to achieve a goal by watching others succeed at the goal, both in real life and through the media, particularly when the role models are adults who are self - similar or otherwise attractive to students (Bandura, 2004, cited in Usher & Pajaresstudents (Bandura, 2004, cited in Usher & Pajares, 2008).

Recognizing the importance of education in achieving this goal, Jackson urged future generations of students to usher in this vision, reminding the audience that «strong minds break strong chains.»

The 2016 election has ushered in questions about how our schools prepare students to be good citizens.

To this end, the Brilliant Club places doctoral and postdoctoral researchers into schools in order to address issues of educational disadvantage and usher the top students...

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

It may be that common core will usher in a new regime, with substantial benefits for student learning, that stops short of its advocates» ideal.

So we principals spend an inordinate amount of time on the phone with a few students parents, chasing the same runners down the hallway, supervising them in the office, holding them back from a tantrum, blocking them from leaving the building, ushering them away from conflicts, counseling them against their bad choices.

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The launch of edweek.org in 1996 ushered EPE into the Digital Age and created a platform for the evolution of its Education Week flagship publication into an integrated print - digital news organization that provides distinctive staff - written original reporting, a forum for a lively but civil exchange of opinion on education issues, an unequaled online archive of 30 - plus years of education coverage, high - quality content from news and information partners, interactive databases, and a host of video, multimedia, and other features that clarify complex points of policy and bring the stories of American schools, educators, students, and parents to life.

Inspiring students As schools up and down the country prepare to usher in the new academic year, 12 more sporting stars have been named as Athlete Mentors for free secondary schools initiative Sky Sports Living for Sport.

A decade ago, the No Child Left Behind Act ushered in an era of federally driven educational accountability focused on narrowing the chasms between the test scores and graduation rates of students of different incomes and races.

The Senate's final approval of the Every Student Succeeds Act launches a new era in education policy and ushers Arne Duncan out of office.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has ushered in a new era of flexibility for state policies and practices related to low - performing schools.

That law ushered in high - stakes testing to measure student progress in reading and math between the third and eighth grades.

To usher in the launch of the Calls to Action, the Aspen Institute brought in students, parents, and teachers, who were all members of the National Commission, to discuss the thinking behind these goals and the relevance of them in today's educational landscape.

Glover ushers them back into their classroom, where he asks students for an update on their project making rock candy.

With the addition of the high school, we are fulfilling a long term vision to usher Brooke students to the door step of college.

I, for one, believe Vergara will usher in a new era of education transformation to turn our system into one in which both students and teachers experience success and joy on a daily, if not hourly, basis.

Most recently, Josh helped draft and usher through laws that would provide experienced out - of - state teachers access to Minnesota teacher licenses, and require the state disaggregate student data by prominent ethnicities beyond inadequate federal requirements.

Counselors are ready to lead in the college and career ready mission, but their graduate schools fail to train them for this mission, schools pull them away from this critical work, and their administrators do not hold them accountable for the activities that usher more students to college.

At the helm of Illinois» Farmington Central School district, Superintendent Asplund has ushered in innovations that are exposing students to opportunities and skills they will need to find their footing in a dramatically shifting local economy.

The shift in educational rigor that globalization has ushered in is pushing policymakers to embrace systemic change in public education, with particular focus on closing achievement gaps between disadvantaged students and their peers.

As California educators prepare for the seismic challenge of ushering in the new curriculum known as the Common Core State Standards, much of the worry has centered on student assessment.

The Education Department also on Thursday released a report on the Obama administration's $ 4 billion Race to the Top competitive grant program, describing how it ushered in sweeping policy changes in many states, including some that proved controversial, such as new teacher evaluations tied to student test scores.

That law ushered in highstakes testing to measure student progress in reading and math between the third and eighth grades.

In the age of accountability ushered in by the No Child Left Behind law in 2002 and continued under 2015's Every Student Succeeds Act, many school officials are using fraudulent methods to inflate graduation rates.

That support stems from a belief that these standards, as developed, will usher in a new age of learning encourages skills all students will need for success, regardless of the path they choose.

When adults invite students to be ushers at professional education conferences, they are tokenizing students.

Will we usher in a system that puts Equity at the center for all students?